{"id":726114,"date":"2026-08-03T14:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T14:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/726114\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T14:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T14:15:12","slug":"three-officers-injured-after-eggs-and-bricks-thrown-at-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/726114\/","title":{"rendered":"Three officers injured after eggs and bricks thrown at police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An investigation is underway after officers were injured when eggs and bricks were thrown at them by a crowd gathered outside a house in Glasgow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police were called to reports of a group protesting outside a house on Priesthill Road at around 18:55 on Sunday. Officers attended and removed the occupants of the house.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The crowd, some with their faces covered, refused to disperse and became hostile to officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Three officers were injured and three police vehicles were damaged, resulting in one being taken out of service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Local Area Commander, Ch Insp William Campbell said: &#8220;The disorder seen last night is unacceptable, and I would like to reassure the local community that our investigation is continuing to identify those responsible and take the appropriate action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I am aware of online misinformation being circulated last night and I would urge the public to behave responsibly around social media, particularly with information being shared and the response to what is read or seen online.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said they are reviewing videos of the incident to identify those responsible and asked for anyone with footage to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotland.police.uk\/contact-us\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">contact Police Scotland, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation is underway after officers were injured when eggs and bricks were thrown at them by a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-726114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}